A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.